Teacher here. I can explain this as: at any given time only about 1/2 the class is listening to instructions. I’m guessing that 4th period is a smaller class, but they did well because the teacher could better monitor what they were doing. I’d be willing to bet that 7th period is the largest class.
Plot twist: 4th period was the teacher's prep period. The teacher burned themself while trying to work out how to keep students from burning themselves.
I blame lunch time.
Student here.
- Forgot instructions when doing practical.
- Broke cover slip under microscope
- Paid for the lens (which wasn't broken, but who cares, it looked like it and they needed money for their parties)
Assuming it's real, how could such a record be anywhere close to acceptable? I can't remember anyone injuring themselves throughout every lab project I had in high school and university.
Right, imagine putting up those kinda numbers in any sort of workplace, OSHA would be shutting it down.
Tbh these numbers dont surprise me much given my experiences as a lab coordinator. The highschool students were far far more prone to mistakes and accidents than the college students were and those were the gifted students. Theyd do stuff like leave broken glassware and glass shards in the dirty glassware bins for me to find. One tried to cause an explosion by turning the gas on for all the bunsen burners and walking out. (Instructor reprimanded for leaving them in the lab unattended, student was expelled) The point is I am not surprised by these numbers at all.
I bet kids saw the chart and took it as a challenge.
Middle school science class. We were supposed to be boiling water over an alcohol burner. The kid across from me was getting frustrated because his wasn't boiling yet. I took a look, and it just looked a little off, so I asked him if he was sure he was boiling water. He gave me a strange look and said that he thought we were boiling the alcohol. Just as he said that, his whole setup went up in flames to the ceiling and all over the table. I'm pretty sure he lost some eyebrows and needed some new pants.
Who the fuck almost died in second period?
Worse thing that happened in my chemistry class is I accidentally spilled sulfuric acid on my hand and another student painted her face with silver nitrate and then got sent home for being in black face after it reacted to the sun. NGL, that one was funny as hell.
Must be the person who put hot glass under cold water and learned something about thermal differentials.
That's a great prank to do when someone is sleeping - they wouldn't know about it when looking in the mirror but then go outside and everyone is clutching their pearls
protip: hot glass looks the same as cold glass
Yep. I've told many people this.
I've also succumbed to confusing that schlenk connector that was just in a flame with the cold one.
False. Really hot glass would glow red, and sometimes cold glass would have condensation depending on the humidity.
Those are extremes. Hot glass that can easily cause severe burns with a quick touch often looks just like room temp glass.
Edit: I, and many others have told countless people the statement OP made. It's for your own safety.
I wanna know about the near death experience!
The seventh period had at least 2 student dead.
Maybe even three!
2nd period goes hard
Nah they are barely waking up. I know I was.
That's what I posted above "only half of second period is actually awake"
If you look at 7th period, it looks like someone erased a bunch of tally marks in Near Death Experiences. I'm wondering if they were downgraded to just burns as part of a cover up.
the teacher is the one doing the real lab experiment here
Plot twist! 4th period only has one student.
Might also be the teacher wondering why there are so many injuries and doing the experiment himself.
Jesus! The worst I ever had was in 9th grade biology I accidentally broke a couple test tubes. I couldn't imagine burning or cutting myself by accident or having a near death experience. 4th period would be my type of class because I wouldn't feel comfortable at all anywhere near the other periods if they're all getting injured.
I sort of managed a near death experience. Not actually life threatening but it was a good show. Basically same lab, trying to boil different clear liquids out of a solution. You do it once and record the plateaus, then do it again and switch tubes at each plateau to separate them. Well we started heating it the second time and it hit the first boiling temperature, but nothing was appearing in the condensing tube. It stayed that way for a minute or so, then the temp started going up past the first boiling point with nothing having actually boiled out. I turned to ask my teacher wtf was going on, then the rubber top with the tube in it exploded off the test tube and the resulting spray of gas/mist caught fire and created a huge fireball.
I grabbed a hot beaker stand in 8th grade. To this day I wonder if the resulting shock gave me the ability to fuck with something internally at will. When I try it feels a bit like when I had electricity running through me.
Our chemistry teacher rigged up an apparatus to make a pure oxygen environment for showing differences in combustion. One student decided to mess with the drip rate of one of the chemicals and it ended up leaking chlorine gas so the teacher just ran it outside and left it out there for like a day
Fun times.
Cut myself with a microscope slide. Didn't realize the lens would drop far enough to break it. Whoops. Ended up nicking my finger getting the slide off.
My proudest science lab injury though, was with a plastic butter knife. Don't ask me how I managed, but I did. It was an ugly cut too.
When I see this meme I always remember the glass rod I stuck in my thumb when we learned to do some basic lab glassmaking.
I suspect 7th period is not the teachers favorite class
I’m disappointed no one collected them all.
Don't worry, it isn't real. Why would they make the cuts column when there were no cuts until third period? And you can't figure the chart just started there, and they filled out the information from second, since the second period tally marks are in different color markers.
He could have set it up at the start of the class using information from past years.
The "near death experience" heading being messier supports this. I imagine this was the first time that happened, so he added that in the middle of class.
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you must be fun at parties
Early periods, kids are tired. Late periods, kids are distracted because freedom is near.
Early periods, kids are tired.
Maybe going to school at nine instead of 8 o clock would help, since most people are of owl (late) chronotype. Studies have shown, marks improve. There's neurological and genetical proof in science. But can't have that, since work and the world is run by the early birds.
Also, the blithe euphoria of lunch lasts less than an hour before the inescapable reality of your current situation creeps steadily back in.
We don't talk about 5th and 6th period.
With a sigh he cleans the up the tally for the 7th period. "Can't call it near death anymore"
Hot glass looks like cold glass.
I'd say it's the opposite. 4th period knows how to party responsibly
I guess some classes won’t learn how to heat stir sticks over a Bunsen burner to make glass spiral earrings and spiral rings. College Chem class allowed us to buy extra stir sticks and responsibly use our free time after labs were completed.
My theory:
4th period everyone just wants to go home so they get er done without horsin’ around
The other periods they have to be there anyways so lots of horsin’ round to make the time go by faster
Nah. Just that no one's apt to fuck around near lunchtime.
Ooof, my lab's safety officer would have loved this. And by love I mean gone absolutely ballistic.
4th period knows how to pass
And first group party too hard .
Periods 2, 3, 7, and 8 are Great British Bake Off on savory bake day. Period 4 is Top Chef.
